First Baptist Church
First Baptist Church is a Baptist church at 801 North Walnut Street in Saint Elmo, IL 62458. It is one of 5 churches in Saint Elmo.
801 North Walnut Street, Saint Elmo, IL, 62458Website: https://www.sbc.net/churchsearch/church.asp?ID=3392-62458
Shares a ministry location with Heartland Independent Baptist Church.
First Baptist Church is part of the Baptist family of churches in The American Church Story. 2,210 congregations of the Baptist family gather across Illinois — 71,872 across the United States on The Church Map.
Baptists pressed harder than anyone for religious liberty in America, and the freedom every other congregation on this map enjoys is partly what they won. They have carried believers' baptism and the priesthood of every believer to more of the world than almost anyone — and the Black Baptist church has repeatedly been the conscience of the whole nation.
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The community around First Baptist Church
It takes 4.4 miles in every direction to gather two thousand neighbors around this church. Among the people scattered across those miles, more than 3 in 10 adults say they are socially isolated, and more than a third of adults live with obesity, and nearly a quarter of the children here are growing up below the poverty line. A scattered parish is still a parish.
Pray for the families driving a long way to everything — to work, to a hospital, to this door on a Sunday morning.
- Social Isolation: 33.3%
- Obesity: 39.1%
- Child Poverty: 27.2% (10.1–44.2%)
- Depression: 23.8%
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 22.8%
- Poverty Rate: 16.3% (8.4–24.2%)
- Food Insecurity: 16.1%
- Diabetes: 13.6%
Source: CDC PLACES, U.S. Census Bureau (2023, 2019-2023), aggregated across 4 census tracts near this church.
Churches near First Baptist Church
- Heartland Independent Baptist Church — 0 mi away in St Elmo, IL
- St. Elmo Seventh-day Adventist Church — 0.1 mi away in St Elmo, IL
- St Elmo Christian Church — 0.2 mi away in St Elmo, IL
- The Table — 0.2 mi away in St Elmo, IL
- First Church of God — 0.3 mi away
- First United Methodist Church — 0.4 mi away
- First Christian Church — 0.4 mi away
- Transformation Church - Saint Elmo — 0.5 mi away in St Elmo, IL
- First Assembly of God Church — 0.5 mi away
- Connection Church — 0.7 mi away in St Elmo, IL
More Baptist churches nearby
- St Elmo Christian Church — 0.2 mi away in St Elmo, IL
- Altamont First Baptist Church — 5.7 mi away in Altamont, IL
- First Baptist Church of Brownstown — 5.8 mi away in Brownstown, IL
- First Baptist Church — 6 mi away in Altamont, IL
- Greenland Church — 10.2 mi away in Beecher City, IL
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